Oxford Public Ledger
Thursday, February 8, 1900
Gathered To Rest.
Mr. Haywood Oakley after an illness of two years died at his home near Sunset, Granville County, on the 26th of January. He was a member of Hester Baptist
Church, and for a good while the members had been taking care of him. He was a good, peaceable citizen, and had great hope in Christ, and believe his long
illness proved blessing to the church. We believe he is at rest as he was so willing to go when it pleased God to take him.
He leaves a devoted wife and adopted child to mourn his death. He possessed a kind heart; and always ready to do a favor whenever it lay in his power and
was about 56 years of age.
Rev. R. H. Marsh preached his funeral at Hester church on the 28th in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends and his remains were
laid to rest in the church yard.
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Oxford Public Ledger
Thursday, June 25, 1903
In Memoriam.
Miss Sea Oakley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yancey Oakley, was born April 29, 1883, and died June 17, 1903. She bore all her sickness with patience until her
last day. She said she was prepared to go for she was going to rest. The funeral was held at the old home place and she was laid to rest by her two sisters
who had proceded her to the grave, there to await the Resurrection Morn.
She was confined to the house for four months with consumption. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Geneva and was loved by all who knew her. She
leaves a father, mother, three brothers and three sisters to mourn her departure. I hope our loss is her eternal gain. We all hated to part from our dear
sister but the good Lord knows best; he saw fit to take her from us-- to carry her home to rest, where there will be no more sorrow, pain nor death. --R. L.
O.
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Oxford Public Ledger
Friday, March 25, 1910
Aged Man and A Brave Confederate Veteran Passes Away.
Last Friday, the 18th, Mr. W. Ridley Oakley passed away to that other world. Mr. Oakley was very nearly a centenarian, being about ninety-nine years old. He
served in the Civil War as a substitute, being older than the law required to enlist. During his service he was made almost deaf by a shell exploding near
him. In his death Granville loses one of her oldest, or perhaps the oldest citizen.
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Oxford Public Ledger
July 24, 1918
Two Granville county Ministers Died In Arkansas
Rev. I. P. Osborne and Rev. E. H. Amis of Blessed Memory.
Rev. L. P. Osborne died at his home in Carthage, Arkansas, July 6, following a brief illness. He was born in Oxford, North Carolina, November 17, 1833, and
was ordained by the Presbytery of Columbia in 1869 while serving churches in Tennessee. For several years his labors had been mostly in Arkansas, although
he spent a brief time in Missouri in connection with the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A. About six years ago he retired from the active pastorate and had made
his home at Gurdon and Carthage, Arkansas. At the time of his death he was a member of Pine Bluff Presbytery.
Rev. E. H. Amis died at his home in Batesville, Arkansas July 10. He was born in Granville County, North Carolina, June 11, 1855. He was a student at
Bingham School and the University of Virginia, and later a teacher in the Bingham School, North Carolina. His theological course was pursued at Columbia
Seminary and Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He was graduated from the latter institution in 1887. He was ordained by Lexington Presbytery November
19, 1887, and served the churches of Monterey, Pisgah, Crab Bottom, Virginia, until 1890. For the following five years he was pastor of the Harrods Creek,
Goshen and Springdale churches at Lott, Rosebud and Chilton, Texas, where he served faithfully until a short time he had made his home in Batesville. He was
a consecrated preacher of strong and simple faith, and rendered and simple faith, and rendered efficient and devoted service to the Church he loved so well.
Rev. E. H. Amis was the grandson of Col. Amis, of Revolutionary fame, and an Uncle of Mr. John Webb, of Oxford.
Rev. J. P. Osborne was an uncle of the late Caleb Osborne, of Oxford, and Col. W. H. Osborne, of Greensboro.
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Oxford Public Ledger
Friday, August 9, 1895
Death’s afflicting Hand.
Two Loved Ones “ Cross Over The River” the Same Day.
(see also death of Mrs. S. H. Smith)
Beyond The Smiling and The Weeping She is At Rest
It is with a saddened heart we are called upon to announce two deaths in Oxford the same day. Thursday afternoon the spirit of Mrs. Lizzie Osborn, the
beloved wife of Edward H. Osborn passed upward into the Great beyond. She was the daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Knott, so well known in this section. Mrs.
Osborn was but 18 years old, and had been married but a year. She died from congestion of the brain after an illness of but 6 days. She leaves a girl infant
six days old which is doing well. Her death is peculiarly distressing, coming as it does when she was just reaching womanhood, and causing her to leave a
child that, should God spare its life, must travel the journey of this world without the guidance of a mother’s tender hand. Then too she leaves a devoted
husband whose life joy went out when her spirit passed beneath the shadows. Mrs. Osborn made friends of all who knew her by her exemplary character and many
Christian virtues.
She had been for six years a devout member of the Baptist church, and her untimely death leaves a sad vacancy in her church as well as in two devoted
families.
We extend to the bereaved family this our most sincere sympathy and trust that He who does nothing without a wise purpose, may give them strength to bear
the heavy stroke.
The funeral was conduct by her pastor, Rev. J. S. Hardaway, from the Presbyterian Church on Thursday morning.
The exercises were expressive in the extreme. She was buried in the beautiful Elmwood Cemetery, where a large procession had followed.
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Oxford Public Ledger
Wednesday, June 25, 1913
Splendid man Passes Away
On Last Thursday night at eleven o’clock, Mr. S. R. O’Briant one of the best known and highly respected Citizens of Granville county, departed this life at
his home near Culbeth in the 80th year of his age. He had been in failing health for several years, and was taken with his last illness at Mt. Zion church
on the First Sunday in June carried home, which he was never able to leave again. Mr. O’Briant was an old Confederate veteran having enlisted in the
Southern cause at the beginning, and rendering honorable Services until four months of the close of the struggle, he was so severely wounded in the left leg
that amputation was necessary, previous to that time having received wounds each of the other limbs of his body.
He was truly a patriotic citizen and took delight in relating his war experiences, which were many and varied. After the war he settled on the farm, and
with the disadvantage of one leg he began a new battle of life, and by strong resolution and great perseverance he made a splendid success. Mr. O’Briant was
a sincere Christian having made a profession of religion early in life, uniting with the Baptist church, having been for the greater portion of his life one
of the foremost workers of Mt. Zion church, where he held his membership at the time of his death. When a quite a young man he was united in marriage to
Miss Frances Currin, of this county who preceded him to the Great Beyond several months ago. Three sons and four daughters, survive him; W. C. O’Briant, of
Route 6; R. H. O’Briant, of Route 2; J. M. O’Briant, of Durham. His daughters are: Mrs. Cornelia Crutcher, of Route 2; Mrs. Julia Parrott, of Lyon; Mrs.
Mary Ragan, of Durham; and Mrs. M. R. Stem,
of Culbreth. The funeral was preached by Dr. R. H. Marsh, of Oxford, who was his pastor for many years, after which the remains were carried to the old
family burial ground where an address of great tenderness was delivered by his life long fiend, Judge A. W. Graham, of Oxford, the body then being consigned
to the tomb.
The esteem in which he was held was attested by the large number of relatives and friends who gathered from different parts of the county.
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